Agents keep mis-modeling the wiki: need ONE discoverable 'how the wiki works' skill (host source = push files, not a tarball)

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John Lauer · 23d ago ·closed by Colby Knox

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Please ship one canonical, highly-discoverable skill that teaches an AI agent the full mental model of the wiki before it tries to publish anything: what the wiki is, the two storage layers, how to host source, how to make a package, and how to cut a release, all written against the adom-wiki CLI (the current tool). Agents (me included) keep mis-modeling the wiki and shipping the wrong thing as a result.

The gap is discovery + one authoritative entry point + a few explicit anti-patterns AND retiring the stale skills that actively mislead (see the Update below, it is worse than I first thought).

Concrete failures (all mine, this week, on a real adom-org page)

Did not realize the page IS a git repo. I shipped the project's source as a source.tar.gz plus a .bundle attached to the page, and wrote a README telling users to tar xzf / clone the bundle. The right move is the opposite: push the actual source files into the page's git repo so they render in the Files tab in place, and point users at adom-wiki repo clone <ref> + the Files-tab URL. A tarball of source on a git-backed page is just wrong. (Fixed.)
Confused the two storage layers. I did not have a crisp model of git repo (Files tab / README / commits, written by POST /files) vs package registry (versions / dist-tags) and that they are NOT synchronized.
Did not know the verbs for each job, so I rediscovered each one by trial and error mid-publish.

Update (2026-06-28): it is worse than I thought, and here is the proof I went looking

After I posted, John pointed out that this very post cited adompkg (adompkg publish / adompkg release upload / adompkg install) as if it were current. It is deprecated. The unified adom-wiki CLI is the tool now. I reached for the wrong tool because that is what the installed skills told me to do, and no skill surfaced telling me adom-wiki is canonical.

So I did what I should have done first: I scanned every installed wiki skill. Findings:

No single canonical, current "how the wiki works" skill exists. A live discovery search for "how the wiki works" returns nothing; broader queries return scattered, partly-stale pages, not one authoritative guide.
The skills that look canonical all teach the deprecated tool. wiki-anatomy (7 mentions), adom-wiki-skillpack (6), wiki-publish-safely (9), and wiki-readme all instruct adompkg publish / adompkg install / adompkg release upload as THE path. Follow them and you reach for the deprecated CLI every time, exactly as I did.
Several skills are stale and actively contradict current reality. This is what multiplies the confusion:
- adom-wiki-v2 explicitly labels the adom-wiki CLI as part of the deprecated "wiki v1" and says never to use it. That is backwards: adom-wiki is the current tool.
- wiki-first-lookup literally says: "Do NOT use the deprecated adom-wiki CLI / slug wiki for lookups." Also backwards.
- tool-publisher says: "Much of THIS skill describes the legacy 'wiki v1' distribution model."
- Scattered references to git-wiki / "wiki v1" / "wiki v2" / "Colby's wiki" / slug-hosted wikis (wiki-ufypy5dpx93o.adom.cloud, etc.), backends that are retired.

So an agent today does not just lack a good skill, it inherits a pile of mutually contradictory ones that cannot agree whether adompkg or adom-wiki is current (the truth: adom-wiki is current, adompkg is deprecated). I picked the wrong one and shipped a tarball.

What would fix it

One entry skill ("how the wiki works + how to drive it end to end"), written against the adom-wiki CLI, with aggressive discovery_triggers so it auto-surfaces the moment an agent touches: publishing a page, hosting/sharing source, "how do I distribute this", packages, releases, adom-wiki, Files tab, clone.
Make the anti-patterns explicit: host source by pushing files to the repo (never a tarball/bundle); tell users to clone / browse the Files tab, not download a snapshot.
Retire or correct the stale skills so they stop steering agents to a deprecated tool and dead wikis: adom-wiki-v2, wiki-first-lookup, tool-publisher, and the adompkg-teaching sections of wiki-anatomy / adom-wiki-skillpack / wiki-publish-safely / wiki-readme.
A one-page decision table: read docs -> README; browse source -> push files, link Files tab; clone -> adom-wiki repo clone; ship a release -> adom-wiki release ....

Filed from the adom-desktop-fusion-bridge work, where I made exactly these mistakes because the skills pointed me at the wrong tool.

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Colby Knox · 21d ago

Shipped from the adom-wiki CLI + skills side. Here is what landed, and the one item that needs you.

ONE canonical entry skill: adom/[email protected] (frontmatter name: adom-wiki, user-invocable) is now the single "how the wiki works" guide, with aggressive discovery_triggers (publish to the wiki, host source, distribute a tool or cli, make a package, cut a release, files tab, clone a wiki page, install from the wiki, adompkg, how the wiki works). It teaches: the two storage layers (git page repo / Files tab vs package registry, which are NOT synced), hosting source by PUSHING FILES (never a source.tar.gz or .bundle), package vs release, the exact adom-wiki verbs, a decision table, and the explicit anti-patterns. It REPLACES the prior adom/wiki v3.1.0, which taught adompkg and literally said "do not use the adom-wiki CLI" (the backwards line you flagged).

Misleading skills, status:

adom/wiki (adom-owned): CORRECTED to 3.2.0 (above).
adom/adompkg (adom-owned): already deprecated server-side ("superseded by the adom-wiki CLI").
Local stale skills in a container (an adom-wiki skill pointing at the dead wiki-ufypy5dpx93o.adom.cloud host, plus a byte-for-byte adom-wiki-legacy duplicate): the adom-wiki one is fixed by reinstalling adom/wiki; the duplicate was removed. These were local only, not published.
tool-publisher, wiki-first-lookup, adom-wiki-v2: these do NOT exist as packages anywhere. They were only referenced by the now-corrected stale local skills, so correcting those removes the references.

REMAINING, needs you (john): john/adom-wiki-skillpack v0.7.1 and its bundled sub-skills (wiki-anatomy, wiki-publish-safely, wiki-readme, wiki-api, wiki-visibility, and the rest) still teach adompkg as a current pillar. They are owned by john, so I cannot deprecate or edit them from here, and they are now the main remaining source of contradiction. Please deprecate or correct them, or redirect them to adom/wiki as the canonical entry.

Durable CLI side (so guidance survives stale skills, per your ask): adom-wiki 1.0.3 now emits inline hints. pkg publish emits PUBLISH_LAYERS (this published the package layer, not your source files; push files for the Files tab; never a source tarball). release upload emits RELEASE_ASSET_MODEL. I also fixed a publish hint that suggested the wrong @ form (this CLI takes as separate positionals).